Evans v. Louisiana Board of Parole

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• jury verdict set aside and new trial ordered on basis of affidavits of all twelve jurors that foreman made error in recording the verdict
• “such mistake must always be one of that nature as contradistinguished from a mistake in the interpretation of the evidence, or of the charge of the court, or of the legal effect of the answers, or of some other similar mistake”

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